Re: restart lasts maybe a minute till next freeze

/etc/sane.d/dll.conf ??5?? c /etc/sane.d/gphoto2.conf On 12/13/24 22:20, Max Nikulin wrote: reports anything besides conffiles? Have you read the output before posting it? Actually I do not see anything really suspicious besides that /lib/systemd/system/rsyslog.service may be replaced

Re: restart lasts maybe a minute till next freeze

On 14/12/2024 21:23, gene heskett wrote: In my employment history I learned a thing or two about helium as I probably tested the pressure regulatores that gave John Glenn his first rides, primarily that man has no material that will contain it, the molecule is so small it walks right thru 2" of

Re: directories I can't get rid of

On 14/12/2024 22:11, Greg Wooledge wrote: hobbit:~$ mount | grep portal portal on /run/user/1000/doc type fuse.portal (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=1000) That looks reasonable. I don't know what it's *for*, but at least it's not in a system-wide location that doesn't exist on

Installer and assistive technologies (was: Re: restart lasts maybe a minute till next freeze)

On 13/12/2024 13:37, gene heskett wrote: IMNSHO the installer is busted. But mentioning that was a no-no. Have you tried to explain your issue to installer developers in a *polite* and *constructive* way? Please, post a link to prove it.

Disabling orca (was: Re: restart lasts maybe a minute till next freeze)

On 12/12/24 22:15, Max Nikulin wrote: minute delays. Do you really need GNOME? -- DE's in your messages. Either reinstall orca and *properly* disable it or uninstall it completely using package manager. The citation above is retained for purpose

Re: restart lasts maybe a minute till next freeze

On 13/12/2024 22:00, Charles Curley wrote: orca is pulled in by "apt install task-xfce-desktop". On this way it is an optional package (Recommends, not Depends). So Gene has something different.

Re: restart lasts maybe a minute till next freeze

On 13/12/2024 23:40, Greg Wooledge wrote: Recommended package *ARE* installed by default. Apt can be configured differently, but out of the box, you should expect them to be included. Gene claimed that he can not remove it, but recommended packages may be removed. gnome (gnome-core in trixi

Re: restart lasts maybe a minute till next freeze

On 14/12/2024 07:04, gene heskett wrote: I've done that to both orca and brltty, the dependency's seem to have been removed now. What is output of the following command? dpkg -l orca brltty Does dpkg -V reports anything besides conffiles? Fighting with orca you could remove files t

Re: Writing passwords down

On 19/12/2024 15:56, Chris Green wrote: Horses for courses, I enter login passwords/passphrases quite frequently (lots of different systems that I ssh to) long, unmemorable, passwords would be useless. Generate a private key and add its public counterpart to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on remote m

Re: Writing passwords down

On 20/12/2024 16:21, Chris Green wrote: In fact my feeling is that password is slightly better because if you are using ssh-agent as you may well leave your system for short periods without logging off and then an intruder will be able to log in to all those remote systems for which ssh-agent has

Re: mail sig separator (was Re: BD backup?)

On 21/11/2024 10:11, Max Nikulin wrote: Eben, you may try to inspect sources of your messages ([Ctrl+U]) from sent and draft folders. Interesting, signature separator is lost by gmane, see w3m -m 'nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.linux.debian.user/622024' however it is present in USENET

Re: help: disable all manner of sleep/suspend/hibernate - Debian 12

On 22/11/2024 13:57, Michael Paoli wrote: seems to be a very deep form of sleep, the only things I can do at that point that at all gets it to respond: - which does a warm reboot Does not like suspend to RAM or suspend to disk (hibernate). It resembles graphics issues. Can you connect

Re: Lost password need help!

On 23/11/2024 01:11, Michael Kjörling wrote: On 22 Nov 2024 12:40 -0500, from e...@gmx.us: Boot off rescue media, mount the victim's / partition somewhere, then edit /etc/shadow to change the second field (deliminated by colons) to the null string.[...] If what you are talking about is instead

Re: ext4 FS Crash

On 06/12/2024 21:05, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: As a check if the defective sectors are all mapped out I did read all sectors of the partitions:   sudo dd if=/dev/sdaX of=/dev/null bs=8M status=progress I am curious if "nvme device-self-test" might be more effective. Michael, thank you for

Re: auto-apt-proxy on trixie?

On 23/12/2024 04:30, Charles Curley wrote: On Sun, 22 Dec 2024 09:42:40 +0700 Max Nikulin wrote: Have you compared results on machines where it works and where it does not (with your actual domain)? getent hosts _apt_proxy._tcp.YOUR.DOMAIN None of my hosts return anything from this

Re: Systemctl masked/disabled/etc

On 22/12/2024 20:35, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sun, Dec 22, 2024 at 01:16:31 -0500, Alex Wahl wrote: Is there any point to worrying about what's masked and disabled if I don't have a specific technical reason? The reason I asked it really just because I'm wondering if I accidentally set a unit t

Re: getting started with pipewire

Adding the mailing list back. The message was sent off-list by mistake, so overquoting. On 10/01/2025 19:15, Haines Brown wrote: On Fri, Jan 10, 2025 at 10:01:57AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: On 09/01/2025 21:15, Greg Wooledge wrote: Moral of the story: NEVER EVER run "wpctl". M

Re: getting started with pipewire

On 09/01/2025 21:15, Greg Wooledge wrote: Moral of the story: NEVER EVER run "wpctl". My guess is that it may be a consequence of "wireplumber" you executed earlier. Having no notion what particular components of pipewire/pulse do, I would avoid running random commands supposed to be started

Re: ISP's router being helpful

On 19/01/2025 17:21, mick.crane wrote: The other day changed the ISP's (Sky) router to have fibre connection. Maybe the previous router was configured to serve .home DNS zone. If vivaldi uses the same settings page as chromium than you may try to disable "secure DNS" chrome://settings/secur

Re: ISP's router being helpful

On 22/01/2025 20:30, Frank Guthausen wrote: On Wed, 22 Jan 2025 12:42:20 +0100 wrote: On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 12:34:20PM +0100, Frank Guthausen wrote: [...] DoH can circumvent manipulation by the ISP [...] It just replaces one bully by another bully. I won't bet on Google not manipulating i

Re: ISP's router being helpful

On 23/01/2025 16:42, mick.crane wrote: Selected "OS default DNS ( when available)", as selecting the pfsense pc by address for this DoH was not accepted. I believe pfsense creates a DNS cache and wondered if pfsense can be configured to do DoH. Was curious where requests were going. I do not

Re: Debian 12, KVM and shared clipboard issue on Wayland

On 22/01/2025 16:06, Rafał Lichwała wrote: I struggled with this for several days and tried everything, but nothing seems to work. I cannot successfully set shared clipboard between host and guest machines when both run Wayland desktop. I have not tried to run Qemu in Wayland-Wayland variant

Re: Are Debian packages updated within a release?

On 18/01/2025 07:34, George at Clug wrote: Would I be correct in assuming this is because the version of Chromium (as in its features) are being updated within Debian 12 Major browsers are an exception. Security fixes are frequent and massive. The upstream teams do not maintain stable version

Re: no space left on device

On 20/01/2025 23:29, Hans wrote: Am Montag, 20. Januar 2025, 17:15:40 CET schrieb Adam Weremczuk: Try "chkdsk /F /R C:" in windows, this should help. Perhaps some tool already "repaired" the drive and some filesystem structure is really corrupted by e.g. mbr code. You may try to get somethin

Re: no space left on device

On 20/01/2025 20:37, Adam Weremczuk wrote: sudo mount /dev/nvme0n1 /mnt/nvme0n1 mount: /mnt/nvme0n1: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/ nvme0n1, missing codepage or helper program, or other error. Is it for the drive plugged directly into a M.2 slot or through a USB adapter?

Re: no space left on device

On 20/01/2025 23:37, Max Nikulin wrote: On 20/01/2025 23:29, Hans wrote: Am Montag, 20. Januar 2025, 17:15:40 CET schrieb Adam Weremczuk: Try "chkdsk /F /R C:" in windows, this should help. Perhaps some tool already "repaired" the drive and some filesystem structure is

Re: Hugh Problem with Firefox and Debian 12

On 28/01/2025 06:57, George at Clug wrote: I am one of the the other people who are experiencing Firefox freezing up the whole desktop computer, requiring the computer to be turned of (hold down the power button or throw switch at the power point). sudo journalctl -e -b -1 after reboot (or

Re: remark related about package removal on bookworm providing a systemd service

On 29/01/2025 01:39, Greg Wooledge wrote: The question is about this dangling symlink: hobbit:/etc/systemd/system$ ls -l dbus-org.freedesktop.timesync1.service lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 45 Feb 17 2024 dbus-org.freedesktop.timesync1.service -> /lib/systemd/system/systemd-timesyncd.service [...]

Re: ISP's router being helpful

On 21/01/2025 23:31, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Tue, Jan 21, 2025 at 10:38:51PM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: On 19/01/2025 17:21, mick.crane wrote: The other day changed the ISP's (Sky) router to have fibre connection. Maybe the previous router was configured to serve .home DNS zone. Judgi

Re: Backports (bookworm), upgrade to all x for kernel 6.12.x, but not upgrade to 6.13

On 22/01/2025 03:17, Marco Möller wrote: Could you please share with me, or point me to, a howto or receipt for applying all upgrades to future kernel 6.12.x versions to appear in Bookworm Backports when doing "apt update && apt upgrade", but to not leave the 6.12 (upstream LTS) branch and not

Re: debian testing, confusing message during upgrade openjdk-17-jre-headless

On 29/01/2025 17:52, songbird wrote: update-binfmts: warning: current package is openjdk-21, but binary format already installed by openjdk-9 Likely it is related to running of .jar files without explicit java command. In a similar way wine may install a handler for .exe files in addition to

Re: remark related about package removal on bookworm providing a systemd service

On 29/01/2025 19:16, Greg Wooledge wrote: dbus-org.freedesktop.timesync1.service symlink is a service name alias for systemd-timesyncd.service. I have no idea *why* this alias was desired, but that's apparently what it is. systemd.unit(5) explains that it is to start the service on demand in

Re: Debian 12, KVM and shared clipboard issue on Wayland

ainly have customers who need access to VM desktops. However I am not sure if only SPICE viewers are deprecated or it includes spice-vdagent as well. On Sunday, 26-01-2025 at 14:47 Max Nikulin wrote: the blog post still gives some hints: - check that /dev/virtio-ports/com.redhat.spice.0 is cr

Re: Fwd: weird networking anomaly whereby my gateway always defaults to 0.0.0.0

On 25/01/2025 14:17, Thomas Anderson wrote: $ nmcli connection show IP4.ADDRESS[1]: 192.168.1.6/24 IP4.GATEWAY:    192.168.1.1 IP4.ROUTE[1]:   dst = 192.168.1.0/24, nh = 0.0.0.0, mt = 100 IP4.ROUTE[2]:

Re: Debian 12, KVM and shared clipboard issue on Wayland

On 24/01/2025 14:12, Rafał Lichwała wrote: so I am not sure if the following link from my notes would be helpful. At least it might give some hint for debugging or some keywords to search for. Gerd Hoffmann. Adding cut+paste support to qemu. 2021 https://www.kraxel.org/blog/2021/05/qemu-cut-

Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

session from system context. It might give some ideas. A message from it: Max Nikulin. Re: Change suspend type from kde menu. Sun, 7 Jan 2024 12:44:31 +0700. <https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/unddo0$pdh$1...@ciao.gmane.io>

Re: To change subject line or not (Was Re: [SOLVED] Re: British English has disappeared)

On 14/01/2025 07:53, Andy Smith wrote: On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 12:41:17AM +, Alain D D Williams wrote: It is not just the Subject: but also the In-Reply-To: and References: headers. A good MUA (mail reader) will use these to deduce what is in reply to what and have the ability to show an em

Re: What is going on with firefox

On 14/01/2025 04:40, Tim Woodall wrote: On Mon, 13 Jan 2025, Daniel Harris wrote: I am a very long time happy firefox user using debian stable, but what on earth is going on with firefox lately.  It is terrible.  So slow and why is it not possible to have 2 separate instances anymore. It's n

Re: What is going on with firefox

On 14/01/2025 16:32, Tim Woodall wrote: On Tue, 14 Jan 2025, Max Nikulin wrote: On 14/01/2025 04:40, Tim Woodall wrote: On Mon, 13 Jan 2025, Daniel Harris wrote: I am a very long time happy firefox user using debian stable, but what on earth is going on with firefox lately.  It is terrible

Re: new computer arriving soon

On 02/01/2025 11:22, gene heskett wrote: On 1/1/25 21:57, Max Nikulin wrote: The problem is that he can not use some search engine to find guides related to LVM. He believes that everything must be documented in man pages, but he ignores any tool that may help to find locally installed man

Re: new computer arriving soon

On 02/01/2025 10:41, poc...@homemail.com wrote: Lookup Gene and networkmanager, Do you really believe it is a precise enough reference? My impression is that despite NetworkManager can easily handle his cases, he often demonstrate unmotivated aggression against NetworkManager developers. The

Re: Specific mdadm instructions for Gene [WAS Re: new computerarrivingsoon]

On 03/01/2025 11:06, gene heskett wrote: On 1/2/25 21:32, Max Nikulin wrote: On 03/01/2025 05:01, gene heskett wrote: sudo apt install sgdisk unforch sgdisk does not appear to be available on armbian. Suitable substitute? Display is wayland so X is out. root not allowed. Gene, have you

/dev/serial/by-id (was: Re: new computer arriving soon)

On 04/01/2025 17:19, gene heskett wrote: One does get tired and short tempered when a copy/paste error post bullseye that wrecks udev is said to not be fixed before trixie. Thats not excusable when the fix is a one line patch we've all done years ago. Get it from a pinned post on discord/klippe

Gene and networkmanager (was: Re: new computer arriving soon)

On 04/01/2025 17:19, gene heskett wrote: On 1/3/25 22:51, Max Nikulin wrote: On 02/01/2025 23:05, poc...@homemail.com wrote: Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2025 at 10:38 AM "Max Nikulin" On 02/01/2025 10:41, poc...@homemail.com wrote: Lookup Gene and networkmanager, I wrote my previo

Re: new computer arriving soon

On 02/01/2025 23:05, poc...@homemail.com wrote: Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2025 at 10:38 AM "Max Nikulin" On 02/01/2025 10:41, poc...@homemail.com wrote: Lookup Gene and networkmanager, Do you really believe it is a precise enough reference? My impression is that despite NetworkM

Re: auto-apt-proxy on trixie?

On 21/12/2024 10:12, Charles Curley wrote: Because of the NATting for the VMs I have defined an alias for the cache in bind per the auto-apt-proxy man page. This works as expected, even on the non-virtual trixie machine. Disclaimer: I have never tried this tool. Have you compared results on ma

Re: Where is my Brave executable

On 23/12/2024 19:56, Richard Owlett wrote: On 12/23/24 4:39 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: `command -v brave`. Is 'command' documented somewhere? Déjà vu... Richard Owlett to debian-user. Using terminal commands - corner cases. Wed, 27 Nov 2024 05:38:30 -0600.

Re: Where is my Brave executable

On 23/12/2024 09:47, Arbol One wrote: In my Debian 12, I used snap to install Brave. To select it as browser in Netbeans I need to know the location of the executable. Does anyone know the directory for the Brave executable? Do you really need to configure browser specifically to Netbeans wi

Browsers on remote DISPLAY (was: Re: What is going on with firefox)

On 16/01/2025 00:38, Tim Woodall wrote: I don't think you understand my setup. Remote XDMCP thin client. I have not checked current state of affairs. I believed that it was working greet 20 years ago before hardware graphics acceleration and client-side font rendering. That is why I mentioned

Re: What is going on with firefox

On 14/01/2025 17:11, Jean-François Bachelet wrote: btw, you need to install noscripts from the extensions panel AND UBlock origin or Adblock plus at least if you want to get rid of all ads and javascripts code that have nothing to with the actual content of the sites you browse (and are here

Re: Monitoring a single process

On 17/01/2025 11:56, Stefan Monnier wrote: One of my main uses is when a tool is sitting there without giving me any feedback and I'm wondering what it is that it's doing. E.g. recently this occurred with `bup`, where I wanted to see if it was mostly talking to the remote `bup`, or mostly reading

Re: /dev/serial/by-id

On 1/7/25 06:01, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: I also ran into the Orca and brltty Hell problem Gene described Just a reminder: this thread started as "new computer arriving soon". Gene hijacked it and Orca is off-topic even in this subthread. Read the subject. Gene does not remember what he

Re: /dev/serial/by-id

On 07/01/2025 15:51, gene heskett wrote: stuck very early in the boot process waiting for orca to come alive. Gene, my congratulations. You have managed to derail the discussion another time. I suspect, this kind of deviations is the reason why you are so successful in earning bans. Good lu

Re: Report Bug

On 15/01/2025 10:45, watt kennet wrote: When using the Persian (Windows) keyboard layout , the right Alt+Shift shortcut can switch the keyboard from English to Persian, but it does not switch back from Persian to English. The issue appears to be specific to the Persian (Windows) layout. Steps

Re: How to install a browser (epiphany) without affecting mailcap etc.?

On 13/02/2025 09:19, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Thu, Feb 13, 2025 at 08:56:47 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: - *browser alternatives - BROWSER environment - mailcap for text/html I have realized that I do not have an example of an application that determines https: scheme handler from mailcap (it is

Re: Kernel not upgrading in all systems

On 09/02/2025 00:05, Gary Dale wrote: VM1: /etc/apt/sources.list I recommend to compare apt policy linux-image-amd64 and apt policy

Re: fonts printing too thin from qpdfview (solved)

On 16/02/2025 04:41, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: I installed Evince. Calling it brings up not even a GUI, just two error messages: Authorization required, but no authorization protocol specified Cannot parse arguments: Cannot open display: Looks like missed DISPLAY environment varia

Re: fonts printing too thin from qpdfview (solved)

Steven, it seems you have managed to print your PDF file, so perhaps you should stop debugging evince (unless you need it for some feature with worse support in okular or browsers: form filling, printing, annotating, etc.; or you need to run another application with deep mandatory desktop integ

Re: software to document and develop projects

On 08/02/2025 22:13, Michel Verdier wrote: Emacs org mode can handle mixed code / documentation Specifically for octave some examples are provided in https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/languages/ob-doc-octave.html (use the .org suffix to get the source file). Using "bare" engine promp

Re: fonts printing too thin from qpdfview

On 15/02/2025 05:08, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: I don't try Evince (Gnome) or Okular (KDE) because I run the fvwm window manager. Have you tried printing PDF files from Firefox or Chromium? There are some other PDF viewers like zathura and atril, but I have never tried their printing fe

Re: Kernel not upgrading in all systems

On 14/02/2025 21:49, Gary Dale wrote: On 2025-02-09 11:46, Max Nikulin wrote: I recommend to compare     apt policy linux-image-amd64 and     apt policy I can't see any differences between them on the various systems. If it is true and the latest kernel is installed on all systems

Re: Issues with D-Link DWA-160 network adapter

On 14/02/2025 00:33, Ceppo wrote: Well, it was worth checking. Thanks for the suggestion. I guess I'll file a bug report. Something might change outside your machine: you installed another router, more devices have been added to your wifi network, including ones actively using multicast (IPTV

Re: How to install a browser (epiphany) without affecting mailcap etc.?

On 13/02/2025 01:26, Greg Wooledge wrote: Now Debian has*two* completely separate ways to specify a default application for a role. I believed there are at least 4 ways (besides settings specific to particular applications) - *browser alternatives - BROWSER environment - mailcap for text/html

Re: Alternative to Debian Repository - extract CSV formatted data from PDF

On 21/02/2025 08:00, David Wright wrote: I dragged the mouse across the Males table and dumped it in a file. David, I recall you mentioned xpdf in your messages. It allows to select rectangular regions. Sometimes it is convenient since this strategy does not depend on order of objects inside

Re: Alternative to Debian Repository - extract CSV formatted data from PDF

On 22/02/2025 05:02, David Wright wrote: With mupdf, I don't even know how to copy, as the mouse just drags the page around. I have not tried it, but... https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/mupdf/mupdf.1.en.html#Right~2 On Fri 21 Feb 2025 at 09:53:46 (+0700), Max Nikulin wrote: When

Re: Alternative to Debian Repository - extract CSV formatted data from PDF

On 22/02/2025 05:02, David Wright wrote: On Fri 21 Feb 2025 at 09:53:46 (+0700), Max Nikulin wrote: P.S. "pdftotext -layout" in some cases is better than without "-layout". I think the results are roughly comparable with my scrapings, for this document at least. Perhap

Re: [SOLVED] pdfarranger and update-alternatives

On 06/03/2025 17:50, Gerard ROBIN wrote: settings -> settings manager -> default applications in xfce4 fixed the problem. (Editing the mimeapps.list file has no effect) But the XFCE settings tool writes selected option to mimeapps.list...

Re: web browser recommendation

On 07/03/2025 04:25, Greg Wooledge wrote: One of the possible answers was to switch to "uBlock Origin Lite", which is less capable (it can't "phone home" to update its block lists because Manifest v3 doesn't permit that), but may still be good enough for most people. I believed that main limita

Re: Problem with /var

On 07/03/2025 09:33, Maureen Thomas wrote: 141523 517216 -rw--- 2 root root 529625088 Nov 7 21:42 ./lib/snapd/snaps/gnome-42-2204_176.snap du -ms /var/lib/snapd Likely you need to move this directory to another partition.

Re: filesystem damage

On 06/03/2025 00:00, Eben King wrote: On 3/4/25 21:59, Max Nikulin wrote: In this particular case I do not think it is a drive failure. I suspect mounting /home was a mistake. Indeed.  "-ro" is not read only when a journal is in play. In some post on data recovery I have seen

Re: How to associate a file extension with preferred executable

On 08/03/2025 21:30, Marco Moock wrote: xdg-mime query default application/pdf Just a word of caution. It does not necessary mean that applications or xdg-open will use the reported handler. E.g. in corner cases Gtk and KDE interprets mimeapps.list in a bit different way. exo-open (that i

Re: TEMORARY workaround - was [Re: How to associate a file extension with preferred executable]

On 09/03/2025 01:21, Richard Owlett wrote: I do not believe using xdg-mime is a *legitimate" technique in this instance. It wasn't used to *cause* the problem. It *shouldn't* be used to supposedly "solve" the problem. A wrong assumption. On 08/03/2025 23:27, Richard Owlett wrote: Before toda

Re: How to associate a file extension with preferred executable

On 09/03/2025 04:55, Mike Kupfer wrote: I don't have any ideas for how you ended up with a different PDF viewer. Behavior varies across various DE. It may be enough to just install another application that may open PDF files. If media type association is not explicitly configured then it is i

Re: evolution recovery

On 06/03/2025 15:08, Russell L. Harris wrote: Obviously, my preference is to get Evolution working right, without the necessity of spending two or three days reinstalling Debian. Have you tried to create a new system user and to configure evolution for it? It may help if your mail provider h

Re: Could you recommend me a mature fuse filesystem which uses a single file as backing storage, and could self-growing?

On 08/03/2025 19:31, Miriami wrote: Would you recommend me a mature fuse filesystem, which uses a single file as backing storage, and could self-growing in size? Qemu's qcow2 disk images may grow in size while initially they may be smaller than size exposed to virtual machines. However likely

Re: evolution recovery

On 08/03/2025 11:23, Russell L. Harris wrote: On Sat, Mar 08, 2025 at 10:16:49AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: Have you tried to create a new system user and to configure evolution for it? Good idea.  Thanks. It may help if your mail provider has enforced another authentication method. I hope

Re: pdfarranger and update-alternatives

On 06/03/2025 07:09, Gerard ROBIN wrote: xdg-mime query default image/png com.github.jeromerobert.pdfarranger.desktop I am currently using Trixie and have uninstalled and reinstalled pdfarranger. So you have several applications installed that may handle PNG files. Which way should other app

Re: filesystem damage

On 05/03/2025 23:33, Greg wrote: Given the cryptic nature of its results and the fact that a positive result implies that the test itself can be a factor in precipitating the very failure it intends to preclude, I see no reason to run this program, which seems to produce more confusion than anyth

Re: Could you recommend me a mature fuse filesystem which uses a single file as backing storage, and could self-growing?

On 09/03/2025 15:47, Miriami wrote: About the projects I've found - I searched with three terms on GitHub - 'sqlite', 'fs' and 'fuse'. Device mapper (dm) might give some alternatives to fuse. Perhaps VeraCrypt or some other encrypted container might be used to store filesystem. Of course, it i

Re: Stunnel startup. Was "Native systemd services."

On 09/03/2025 23:15, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: https://wiki.debian.org/Pan . There we read, To enable Stunnel edit /etc/default/stunnel4 ENABLED=1 /etc/default/stunnel4 exists but lacks ENABLED. My best guess is that systemd obsoleted it. Stunnel needs https://wiki.debian.org/Stunnel with curr

Re: pdfarranger and update-alternatives

On 05/03/2025 18:46, Gerard ROBIN wrote: I use Bookworm and Trixie. With Bookworm no problem when I click on "file:///home/user/file.png" the file file.png opens with display (imagemagick) but with Trixie it is pdfarranger that opens the file. What is output of the following command? xdg-mi

Re: filesystem damage

On 03/03/2025 17:03, Dan Purgert wrote: On Mar 02, 2025, Eben King wrote: [...] ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME  FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE   1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f   082   064   006    Pre-fail Always   -   146369262 146 million read-errors.

Re: filesystem damage

On 03/03/2025 00:03, Charles Curley wrote: On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 10:49:41 -0500 Eben King wrote: So what can I do to fix this, while still keeping my history, cookies, tabs, etc? I smell a rat. I wonder if the corruption is because your hard drive is failing. I would first boot to a live CD and r

Re: Debian stuck at 12.6

On 18/03/2025 02:24, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: As ever with apt problems, it's really useful if you can copy you *actual* /etc/apt/sources.list file to the mailing list. Output of apt policy while being more "noisy", is a more reliable source for troubleshooting. The first step is to chec

Re: Debian stuck at 12.6

On 18/03/2025 14:11, Loris Bennett wrote: Max Nikulin writes: apt policy [...] My sources.list was correct, but 'apt update/upgrade' failed to install anything, so I assume Andrew is correct in pointing the finger at some sort of caching issue which removing /var/lib/apt/lists/

Re: idle-python3.11 missing?

On 14/03/2025 22:32, Lee wrote: Am I doing something wrong or is idle-python3.11 really missing from the repository? [...] W: Failed to fetch https://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/python3.11/idle-python3.11_3.11.2-6%2bdeb12u4_all.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 2a04:4e42:77::644 443] apt polic

Re: Pls help fixing /boot/efi and GRUB

On 25/03/2025 02:40, J wrote: user@debian:~$ sudo for i in /dev /dev/pts /proc /sys /sys/firmware/efi/ efivars /run; do mount -B $i /mnt/$i; done Notice that the page suggests "# for i in /dev /dev/pts /proc " so it is assumed that users should run $ sudo -i # # more commands given above... #

Re: Frequent freezing around login screens

On 27/03/2025 03:26, George at Clug wrote: I tried "$ journalctl | grep -i error" First of all, likely it should be "#", not "$" (run it as root: either sudo or su). Next journalctl --priority=err or journalctl --priority=warning instead of grep. However in the case of obscure is

Re: Frequent freezing around login screens

On 28/03/2025 05:13, George at Clug wrote: Max suggested checking with journalctl which may help, but I am thinking that if the computer is freezing, then nothing can get written to the logs anyway, so searching logs may not help. For example: # journalctl --priority=err --no-pager To be cl

Re: laptop options

On 24/03/2025 15:23, Ralph Aichinger wrote: Product Name: HP ZBook Fury 16 G10 Mobile Workstation PC [...] Support is so good, that when I go into "Software" in the Gnome applications menu, It will show me if a new firmware for the Thunderbolt dock is available, and suggest to install i

Re: selecting text with mouse

On 26/03/2025 01:41, mick.crane wrote: I generally use Geany or Nano for typing and although of not major importance I earlier wanted to move bits of text around and thought being able to make random selections, as one thing, would be handy. Read manuals, perhaps that editors have some close f

Re: selecting text with mouse

On 26/03/2025 00:10, Greg wrote: On 2025-03-25, Max Nikulin wrote: I was able to do what you're asking by using the CTRL key. [...] If that doesn't work at all on any given webpage, it will likely have something to do with how the webmaster coded the page. It is broken in the

Re: Pls help fixing /boot/efi and GRUB

On 25/03/2025 19:47, J wrote: Notice that the page suggests "# for i in /dev /dev/pts /proc " so it is assumed that users should run $ sudo -i sudo *SH -c '...' -* as mentioned above. But it is not written in WIki. In my opinion, "sudo -i" might be added to the wiki articles. I wo

Re: selecting text with mouse

On 25/03/2025 10:00, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: On Tue, 2025-03-25 at 02:25 +, mick.crane wrote: eg. alpha beta charlie delta select only "alpha" and "charlie" text with mouse drag and copy. I was able to do what you're asking by using the CTRL key. [...] If that doesn't work at all on any

Re: Pls help fixing /boot/efi and GRUB

On 26/03/2025 18:55, Greg Wooledge wrote: "sudo -i" is meant to approximate the behavior of "su -". Before buster, nobody would have used that on a Debian system. It's horrible. The fact that people are now embracing it as a norm is even worse. It seems I have to clarify why I suggested name

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